Composer & Music Producer

Composer & Music Producer

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Originally from Edmond, Oklahoma, Jay Wadley is a NYC/LA based composer and music producer. His score for James Schamus'Indignation was featured in IndieWire's "10 Best Scores of 2016", received a concert performance by the Winnipeg Symphony for Soundtracks Live, and received an Honorable Mention for the 2017 BSO Jerry Goldsmith Awards for "Best Original Score for a Feature Film".Indignation premiered to critical acclaim at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival where it was acquired by Lionsgate. Recent projects include The OA(Netflix) and Anu Valia's Lucia, Before & After,winner of the 2017 Sundance Jury Prize: U.S. Short Fiction. Other TV credits include Lie to Me (FOX), Crazy Sexy Cool: The TLC Story (VH1), The Nine Lives of Chloe King (ABC Family) and orchestrations for Doctor Who (BBC). His films have played at Sundance, Telluride, SXSW, Berlin, Rotterdam, Tribeca, BFI London, LA Film Festival and Montreal film festivals. His arrangements and orchestrations for Rufus Wainwright, Mark Ronson and Calexico have been performed by The San Francisco Symphony, New York City Opera, The Royal Ballet and the Louisville Symphony Orchestra, among others.

A graduate of the Yale School of Music (MM, AD), Jay has won two Charles Ives awards from the Academy of Arts and Letters as well as an ASCAP/SCI Student Composer Award. He's been commissioned by Carnegie Hall's Ensemble ACJW, the Yale Band, Williams College and The Nouveau Classical Project.

PRESS:

"Jay Wadley may be the most exciting 'new' composer to enter the fray in 2016.... It’s hard to overstate how exciting it is to hear a young composer write such a rich score in a traditional vein." - IndieWire "10 Best Scores of 2016"

"Indignation also features a truly magnificent score by Jay Wadley, full of strings and fitting with the film’s classic aesthetic and storytelling." - Slash Films

“One thing that’s a real treat is a Netflix doc called ‘Long Shot,'” she says. “It blew me away. It has Larry David, some stunning twists of fate, and it’s told in the warmest, most humanistic way. That’s a movie that I will probably watch a good couple of times before the end of my life.”

With slightly over two months to go before the official opening in January, it is our great pleasure to announce IFFR 2017’s first world premiere: Double Play by Ernest Dickerson. A film about Curaçao, the past and a game of dominoes, after the much lauded novel Double Play by Frank Martinus Arion. The cast and crew will walk the red carpet for the festive premiere in Rotterdam.

Featuring Ennio Morricone’s Oscar winning music from The Hateful Eight, John Williams’ latest Star Wars music from The Force Awakens (earning the legendary composer his 50th Academy Award nomination!), suites and themes from Now You See Me 2 (Brian Tyler), Zootopia (Michael Giacchino), Kubo and the Two Strings (Dario Marianelli)and many more recent cinema blockbusters, this program is the flagship in the Soundtrack Live! fleet of film music concerts. It is constantly evolving in order to present the most current, the most popular and the most exciting orchestral music from films currently or recently on the worldwide cinema repertoire. Each concert will be a unique experience!

Lucia, Before and After / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Anu Valia) won the 2017 Sundance Jury Prize: U.S. Fiction Short. After traveling 200 miles, a young woman waits out Texas's state-mandated 24-hour waiting period before her abortion can proceed.

From creators Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij, the eight-episode season follows Prairie Johnson (Marling), a missing blind woman who finally returns to her family after seven years with her sight restored. Though Prairie is said to “remember everything,” she refuses to talk about what happened to her during her time away from home, leaving viewers to contemplate what exactly befell her all those years ago.

Lionsgate’s Summit Entertainment, which paid upward of $2.5 million for North American rights to former Focus Features head James Schamus’ directorial debut Indignation, has set the picture for release with Roadside Attractions.

“Indignation,” which is based on Philip Roth’s novel, centers on a young student (Logan Lerman) who champions his moral and political ideals in fierce debates with the dean of his college at a time when the Korean War has started to undermine the still youthful and brash confidence of U.S. citizens. Schamus, one of the U.S.’s leading independent producers, was president of the Berlinale international jury in 2014.

Academy Award–nominated screenwriter and independent film stalwart James Schamus makes his feature directorial debut with this exquisite period portrait of a young man at a crossroads. Adapting Philip Roth’s novel with warmth and faithfulness, Schamus elicits support from a universally top-of-their-game cast, highlighted by a blistering turn by Logan Lerman as the idealistic, increasingly indignant Marcus.

Over the past few months I've been working hard on the film score for Indignation, an adaptation of the Philip Roth novel written and directed by James Schamus. Recording the score with an orchestra last week at The DiMenna Center for Classical Music was a dream come true.